Ilion High School - Class of 1957

Herkimer Evening Telegram - June 26, 1957

$1,225 in Prizes Given At Ilion Commencement

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$1,225 in Prizes Given At Ilion Commencement

ILION- Prizes and scholarships totaling $1,225 were awarded last night at 1957 commencement exercises ct Ilion High School with 98 pupils receiving diplomas.

Scholarship winners were Jeffrey Hopkins $500; Joanne Phillips, $300; David Letts, $200; and top money awards went to the valedictorian, James Barnes, and salutatorian, Lee Purple, who received $55 and $50, respectively.

photo caption - RECEIVES CUP. Brian Brunette accepts the Harold "Boots" Lever Cup for outstanding athlete student from Ilion High School Principal Joseph A. Baker during the 1957 Commencement Exercises held last night in the Capitol Theater.

Philip Lovejoy, Utica, spoke on "Make Way for Tomorrow." The Invocation and benediction were offered by the Rev. Daniel Horan, pastor of the Church of the Annunciation.

Barnes and Miss Purple gave the valedictory and salutatory addresses entitled, "The Mayflower,Returns," and "Music in Ilion."

William Hughes, president of the Board of Education and Superintendent George H. Purple, presented diplomas while Joseph A. Baker, high school principal, awarded the prizes.

Robert Weiler, instrumental instructor directed the band in the processional and recessional and Arthur Dauten, music supervisor, led the Orpheua Chorus in "Halls Of Ivy."

Prize Awards

These prizes were awarded:

Ilion National Bank and Trust Company scholarship $500, Jeffrey Hopkins; I Clark Seamans Scholarship to Syracuse University, $300, Joanne Phillips; Dr. Earl P. Watkin memorial teaching scholarship, $200, David Letts.

Loretta Douglas memorial fund, English, first $10, James Barnes; 2nd, $5, Lee Purple; Mathematics four years first, $10, Frances Pavliga, 2nd, $5, James Barnes; history. three years, Cornelia Nagel prize, $5, James Barnes, American History, 11th year, $5, Folsom Selwood.

Problems of Democracy, 12th year, $7, Patricia Petersen; Latin three years, first, $10, Frances Pav.iga, 2nd, $5, Donna Coriale; Spanish, two years, $5. Lee Purple, French, three years, $5, Jim Barnes.

John Guy Prindle memorial prize in science, first, $10, James Barnes; 2nd, $5, Folsom Selwood; shorthand, two years, $5, Lee Purple, office practice, two years, $5, Lee Purple, Industrial Arts and vocational shop, three tears, $5, Gary Adams, mechanical drawing, 1, 2 and 3, $5, Gary Adams.

Art, three years, Jeannette Currier: homemaking, three years, $5, Donna March; mathematics and science, five units, and R.P.I. medal, $10, James Barnes; 2nd, $5, Frances Pavliga; speech arts, $5, Wayne Monteau.

Earl P. Watkin memorial prize valedictorian, $20, James Barnes; Veterans of Foreign Wars, salutatorian, $20, Lee Purple; Prisclla Burnham memorial prize for piano, $10, Lee Purple, Robert Kent memorial prize for music, instrumental, $5, David Letts, $5, vocal, Donna Corriale and Jeannette Currier.

VFW Auxiliary improvement prize, $10, Alain Briand and $10, Joanne Denapole, Diane Monteau prize for cooperation, $10, Janice Staley; Women of the Moose prize for nurses training, $10, Mary Lou Leach.

Priscilla Burnham athletic trophy, Veronica Caffrey; Lever Cup, Brian Brunette.

Received Diplomas

Diplomas were received by these graduates:

Dale Abeling,
Gary Adams,
James Barnes,
Patricia Beach,
Raymond Bentz,
Edna Bergloff,
Ann Billings,
Alain Briand,
Gale Brown,
Brian Brunette,
Sandra Lee Bugal,
Lois Bush,
Veronica Caffrey,
Janet Carr,
Marie Conley,
Charles Conover,
Donna Coriale,
Jeannette Currier,
Sandra Curtis,
Maureen Daly,
Sandra Danforth,
Ronald Dawson,
Sally Ann Day,
Joanne Denapole,
Gordon Disotelle,
Sally Donahue,
Howard Dunning,
Ellen Eastwood,
Jessie Eberle,
Dawn Emden,
Robert Farger, Jr.,
Nancy Lea Ferguson.

Janet Fitzgibbons,
George Frank,
Ellen Gird,
Patricia Googin,
Elbert Goss,
Victor Hall,
Richard Hegeman,
Elisabeth Hitchcock,
Jeffrey Hopkins,
James Huffman,
Judith Hughes,
Alice Ingraham,
Richard Kerr,
Diane King,
Joel King,
Janet Kirkland.

Mary Lou Leach,
Rodney Lennox,
David Letts,
Roberta Long,
Nancy Jean Louie,
Joanne Manno,
Joseph Manore,
Donna March,
Leo McCoy,
Carl Miller,
Wayne Monteau,
Michael Morris,
Elaine Myers,
Charles Nile,
Ann Palmer,
Karen Parker,
Frances Pavliga.

Jean Pelko,
Patricia Petersen,
Joanne Phillips,
Robert Phillips,
Sally Pierce,
Gertrude Polley,
Lee Purple,
Gerald Reape,
Mary Jane Remmel,
Sydney Renshaw,
Charles Riesel,
Marguerite Rowland,
Benjamin Russell,
John Sanderson,
William Schaepe,
Samuel Folsom Selwood.

Thomas R. Shepard,
George Sitts,
Janice Staley,
Charlotte Stefanishyn,
Joyce Terpening,
Charles Thomas,
Elizabeth Turest,
Barbara Jean Tuttle,
Judith Kay VanDelinder,
Peggy Whalen,
Robert Williams,
Carolyn Wood,
Diane Yavornitzki.